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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED JULY 5, 2005 Present: President of Council Kennedy, Council Members Barker, Gareau, McKay, Miller, Nashar, Ryan, Tallon Also Present: Mayor O'Grady, Law Director Dubelko, Clerk of Council Seman President of Council Kennedy called the special meeting to order at 7:40 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. COMMITTEE REPO,;~iTS Councilman Miller, chairperson of the Public Safety, Health & Welfare Committee: 1) The Public Safety Committee met on Tuesday, June 28, to discuss Ordinance 2005-90. Present were all Council members, Fire Chief Klecan, Police Chief Ruple, Westlake Fire Chief Pietrick, all directors, the Mayor and various guests from the community. Items discussed include, but are not limited to, a presentation by Chief Klecan discussing their hopeful reduction in response times and quality of response, various radios, communications devices, in-station response, in-field response, improved coordination of services, benefits as to cost with statistics indicating that there are about 100 calls per day to our current dispatch center, roughly 10 of which are Fire and 90 Police. Mutual aid responses were discussed. It was explained that this will not result in automatic aid, but mutual aid which we currently have in place right now. There was some discussion of regionalism in general and how it would or would not apply to this particular ordinance. More discussion was held on the central dispatch pluses and minuses. Representatives from our dispatch center spoke on the proposal, and they recommended against it. A representative from the Fire Department indicated that the fire fighters' union is not endorsing this plan. The Mayor and the Chief had responses for all the people who spoke. There were lengthy and open discussions on all the issues. The Police Chief indicated that there would be minimal impact on his operations in the Police Department, and he was clear that he was only speaking on behalf of the Police Department operations, not fire or ambulance emergency services. The committee decided to not make a recommendation for approval but to hold the legislation in committee until this evening. It was recommended that it would be relieved from committee so that a vote could be taken on consideration of passage. Councilman Miller made a motion to relieve Ordinance No. 2005-90 from the Safety Committee. The motion was seconded by Councilman Nashar. Roll call: Miller, yes; Nashar, yes; Ryan, no; Tallon, yes; McKay, yes; Barker, yes; Gareau, yes. The motion passed with six yes votes and one no vote. Ordinance No. 2005-90 is relieved from committee. PJ